| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Esger Abbink" <pggeneral(at)bumblebeast(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: data directory growing huge |
| Date: | 2003-09-24 14:28:31 |
| Message-ID: | 3923.1064413711@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Esger Abbink" <pggeneral(at)bumblebeast(dot)com> writes:
> the bulk of the space is occupied by a dozen huge files in base/16559,
> all sufficiently meaninglessly named: 72646, 72653.1 etc.
You could find out what they are by consulting pg_class.relfilenode
(or see the contrib/oid2name utility). But my bet is that they are
indexes and you need to REINDEX them to recover the space.
> On two production server (7.2rc2) of ours
[ blanch ] You're running a production server on 7.2rc2? Still?
Get thee to 7.2.4, at least. We do not make dot-releases for idle
amusement.
regards, tom lane
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